coo, coo .... mourning doves and a sure sign of Spring

[Margie J]

This morning I thought I heard a soft cooing sound outside my bedroom window. The sound was back this afternoon and lo and behold there was a mourning dove walking through my porch window boxes.

I watched her check out one of my plant pots on the porch. A male dove was out there also. The two were very "friendly" so to speak. I'll be watching for eggs soon.

A couple years ago a dove pair decided to nest on my porch. I wonder if one of these doves is from that batch of chicks.

Spring and chicks, here we come!

 

[ballroombelle]

I am loving how the days are getting longer and longer.

 

[chris1gill]

This is a side question, how do you get rid of these mourning birds? I thought they were pigeon's but my MIL told me they were mourning doves... Last year, our first summer here, we must have had a hundred of them perched on my roof everyday!!! drove me nuts & my kids were constantly running out there to shout the birds down It didn't work... I cannot have them back this year..

 

[Tinkerbelle739]

DH walked outside yesterday morning to the cooing, I was standing at the door and he just looked at me with mouth open... That is one of my most favorite sounds.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I thought this as going to be a Mrs Robinson thread, Margie. Coo, coo, ca-choo, Mrs Robinson.

 

[sweet angel]

When I was looking at the house I ended up buying (in 2000), there were two mourning doves in the windowbox by the front door. After I closed on it and moved in, the doves were still there. Shortly after, I noticed eggs, then babies.

My DS and I would talk to the birdies every day...and my cat seemed to decide that they were his babies too (through the window, of course!). We watched them every day for several week -- mama, daddy and babies.

One day I came home from work and they were all gone. We were very sad...and poor kitty seemed totally devastated that his babies were gone.

Since then, I've gotten 2 dogs. The doves came back in 2001, but my dogs chased them away.

 

[the kabuki]

This is a side question, how do you get rid of these mourning birds? I thought they were pigeon's but my MIL told me they were mourning doves... Last year, our first summer here, we must have had a hundred of them perched on my roof everyday!!! drove me nuts & my kids were constantly running out there to shout the birds down It didn't work... I cannot have them back this year..

Well,if you lived in Michigan you could blow them away

They just passed a law here making it legal.
Must be real tough to shoot one of those, I can get as close as 2 feet to the ones around here.

 

[Margie J]

I thought this as going to be a Mrs Robinson thread, Margie. Coo, coo, ca-choo, Mrs Robinson.

Well, let me tell you about my tall, dark and handsome soon to be 30 "friend" in New York ....

 

[Beth76]

They're called mourning doves? I thought they were "morning" doves.